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The Cleveland Bay Horse Ian Pearce October 2011 The Cleveland Bay Horse Ian Pearce October 2011 The Cleveland Bay Breed In the days before steam-power and the internal combustion engine, the Cleveland Bay was essential to local farming, transport and travel. Today, there are perhaps as many “Cleveland Bay” and “Bay Horse” pub signs as there are actual horses to be seen around Cleveland, but the very presence of these signs signifies just how important this breed was to local economy. The history of the Cleveland Bay, Britain’s oldest breed of horse, is well documented.1,2 Throughout the Middle Ages, the Monastic Houses bred horses suitable to act as pack animals, for transporting goods between abbeys and monasteries. These were known as Chapman horses, after the name given to the packmen and itinerant pedlars. During the seventeenth century, stallions imported from North Africa were crossed with Chapman mares. Later, during the eighteenth century, the weight and size of these horses increased to become the Cleveland Bay. Then some Cleveland Bays were crossed with strong thoroughbred horses to produce the Yorkshire Coach Horse. Both types of horse, the Chapman and the Yorkshire Coach Horse seem to be referred to as “Cleveland Bays”. The Cleveland Bay was a superior coach horse, noted for stamina and even temperament. With a reputation for fast times between London and the North pulling mail coaches, the animals were much in demand both in Britain and Europe. Dealers travelled from all over the country to buy Cleveland Bays. Queen Victoria owned several of these distinguished animals3. Interestingly while English buyers only wanted bays, Europeans were not so fussy about colours and would pay good prices for the greys. They were a great favourite in Vienna, a city more usually associated with the famous Lipizzaner horses4. Sir Alfred Pease noted, in his Cleveland Bay Stud Book, that one did the 202 miles from York to London in three days, while another took its rider the 40 miles to Newcastle and back at night, swimming the Tees on each journey!5 Locally, Cleveland Bays could be seen on every farm. They could be used for most farm work, and also for riding. A feature of the breed is their absence of ‘feather’ (hair on the lower legs and fetlocks) unlike many of the heavier draught horses such as Clydesdales. This was supposedly important because of the predominantly clay soils of Cleveland didn’t stick to their legs, but in fact on the heavy soils a pair of Shires or Clydesdales were needed to pull a plough6. The rise of the railways spelled the death of the coaching trade, and so brought about a vast reduction in the numbers of Cleveland Bays. By the end of the century the breed was heading for extinction, and the Cleveland Bay Horse Society was formed in 1884 to preserve the breed7. The inaugural meetings were held in the Black Lion Hotel, Stockton on Tees, where the first president, the Right Honourable James Lowther MP was elected, with William Scarth Dixon as secretary. The Society listed stallions in a Stud Book, and later registered mares. The Pease family were strong supporters of the new society. Cleveland Bays were popular with the British Army. Smaller Cleveland Bays were used to carry British troopers, and larger members of the breed pulled gun carriages. Sadly, many were lost during the First World War. By the middle of the twentieth century, the bred was again under threat. At one point, only five studs remained. Then Her Majesty the Queen made her Cleveland Bay ‘Mulgrave Supreme’ available at public stud, and interest was revived. The Duke of Edinburgh drove a team of Cleveland Bays in events. This revival was short lived, but as the new millennium dawned, the Cleveland Bay was establishing itself as a competition horse in show jumping, dressage and driving events. Cleveland Bays in Great Ayton By the end of the nineteenth century, every farm in Cleveland would have used Cleveland Bays. On the smaller hill farms, where only one horse would be kept, it would be a Cleveland Bay. The breed was capable of doing most farm jobs; ploughing (on the sandier and hence lighter land higher up towards the hills), hay making, pulling carts, and for riding and hunting8. Bill Cowley, the famous farmer of Goulton Grange at Potto, related the tale of his neighbour Arthur Bell who was ploughing with his Cleveland Bay5. The Hunt swept past in full cry, and the Cleveland Bay was off after them, plough and all, so Arthur cut the traces, jumped on its back and went off after the fox. He was presented with its brush, and then returned to the ploughing! On larger farms, and for ploughing the heavy local clay, there may have been heavier horses, such as Clydesdales. We know that horses were bred at Aireyholme in 18819 since James Foster, a horse breaker, was lodging at the farm. It is difficult to know just how many Cleveland Bays there were in Great Ayton; animals do not feature in census returns, and the Finance Act (1909-10) surveys only covered farm buildings and land. The 1941 Farm Surveys10 did include livestock, but the horses were not divided into individual breeds. The 1941 surveys recorded 143 horses on the farms of Great Ayton and Little Ayton (and, incidentally, just 13 tractors). The largest farms, East Angrove and Stanley Grange, each had 9 horses, the smallest farms had one or two. It is reasonable to assume that a good proportion of these horses would have been Cleveland Bays. The Hutchinsons at Bank House Farm Bank House Farm was situated at the top of Dikes Lane, just to the south of Gribdale Terrace. In the twentieth century, it ceased to be a farm and became two dwellings, the original Bank House Farm house remained and the large barn was converted into ‘Red Roofs’. For several generations, the Hutchinson family farmed the 100 acres of Bank House Farm. In 187111 the tenant farmer there was Thomas Hutchinson senior, with his wife and four children. Although chiefly occupied as a farmer, Thomas had a thriving business breeding Cleveland Bay horses12. His son, Thomas junior, shared his father’s interest in horses, and in 1885 (when he would have been 29) he was advertising the services of Young Recruit, a rising 2 year-old pure bred Cleveland Bay with an impeccable pedigree13. Young Recruit served mares for one pound and ten shillings, with an extra half crown for the groom. Prospective customers were to note that no business was done at Great Ayton Banks on Sundays. When Thomas junior died, his obituary included the following comment on Cleveland Bays.14 “The name of Thomas Hutchinson appears with regular frequency in the earlier volumes of the Cleveland Bay Horse Society’s Stud Books. Mr Hutchinson had lived in an age when, almost without exception, every farm in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire had one or more Clevelands as part of their economy. When these horses were annually exported in their hundreds to the States, Mr Hutchinson’s stock was eagerly sought after by American buyers. Amongst those which he exported were the appropriately named American Friend, American Queen and Young Recruit, Young Volunteer and Diamond Merchant. In the is connection, Mr Hutchinson was offered, by a prominent American breeder, an important position as manager of his considerable stud, but devotion to his then ageing parents led to his declining the offer.” Some of the Cleveland Bays owned by Thomas Hutchinson junior Source: Incomplete set of The Cleveland Bay Stud Book from 1880 onwards14. Name Date foaled Bred by Property of Fan 4 June 1873 George Pickering Thomas Hutchinson jun (mare) Summer Hill Farm Yorkshire Lass 10 June 1881 George Pickering 1) Thomas Hutchinson jun (mare) Summer Hill Farm 2) William Hutchinson Young Volunteer 6 June 1882 George Pickering Thomas Hutchinson jun (stallion) Summer Hill Farm Young Recruit 14 June 1883 Thomas Hutchinson jun Thomas Hutchinson jun (stallion) American Friend 20 May 1884 Thomas Hutchinson jun 1) Thomas Hutchinson jun (stallion) 2) William Hutchinson, Gunby, Selby 3) W M Fields & Brother, Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA* Grace Darling 18 May 1885 Thomas Hutchinson jun Thomas Hutchinson jun (mare) Diamond Merchant 4 April 1887 Thomas Hutchinson jun Thomas Hutchinson jun (stallion) Tradesman 15 May 1887 Mrs Webster Thomas Hutchinson jun (stallion) Commondale Yorkshire Tyke 14 June 1887 Thomas Hutchinson jun Thomas Hutchinson jun (stallion) American Queen 29 April 1888 Thomas Hutchinson jun Thomas Hutchinson jun (mare) Plantagenet 27 June 1888 Thomas Hutchinson jun Thomas Hutchinson jun (stallion) Ayton Lad 1895 Thomas Hutchinson jun Thomas Hutchinson jun (stallion) The Americans W M Fields and Brother owned other Cleveland bays; Egton Boy and Prince Albert Victor are both mentioned in the Cleveland Bay Stud Book. Thomas Hutchinson with two of his Cleveland Bay stallions Hand-bill for Young Recruit (with unfortunate spelling mistake corrected by hand) References 1 Cleveland bay on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Bay 2 Cleveland Bay Horse Society http://www.clevelandbay.com 3 The History and Antiquities of Cleveland John Walker Ord Republished by Patrick and Shotton, Stockton on Tees, 1972 4 Lipizzaner Stables Museum, Reitschulgasse, Vienna 5 Farming in Yorkshire Bill Cowley, The Dalesman Publishing Company Ltd, 1972 6 Oral testimony from Alan Atkinson, 107 Wheatlands, Great Ayton Collected by Ian Pearce on 22 February 20028 7 Cleveland Bay Horse Society Darlington & Stockton Times, 23 February 1884 8 Cleveland Bay Horse Society www.equine-world.co.uk 9 1881 Census records at www.greatayton.wikidot.com 10 Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Agricultural Returns 4 June 1941 Reference MAF 32/1087/436 National Archives, Kew 11 1871 Census records at www.greatayton.wikidot.com 12 Oral evidence from Bill Hutchinson, 130 Newton Road, Great Ayton Collected by Ian Pearce on 13 October 2001 13 Advertising card owned by Bill Hutchinson 14 The Cleveland Bay Stud Book (various volumes held in Stokesley Library) Compiled by William Scarth Dixon Cleveland Bay Horse Society 15 Darlington & Stockton Times, 18 September 1943 .
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